Willi Liebern

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Willi Liebern (born March 20, 1910 , † January 20, 1988 ) was a German wrestler in the light and heavyweight classes.

Career

He began his wrestling career in Dortmund in 1926 and was a member of the ASV Heros Dortmund for many years . Only between 1940 and 1945 was he a member of the Berlin KV due to the war. There he received the finishing touches from the Olympic champion in 1936 in the middleweight division Ludwig Schweickert . After returning to the ASV “Heros” team in Dortmund, the motor vehicle champion made a significant contribution to winning seven German team championship titles from 1949 to 1956. His most important fighters in the Heros team, which at the time was considered unbeatable in the wrestling scene, were Gustav Gocke , Werner Härtling , Anton Mackowiak , Horst Hess and Helmut Höhenberger . Willi Liebern was a late starter whose career dragged on for an extraordinarily long time. However, the war and the post-war period prevented a great international career. So his shoulder victory in 1949 against the Swedish Olympic champion Karl-Erik Nilsson , who had twice defeated the German light heavyweight champion Max Leichter from Frankfurt on a trip to Germany with his club team Enighet Malmö , was his greatest international success. In 1952 he tried to qualify for the Olympic Games in Helsinki despite his 42 years. In the elimination tournament he took first place with victories over Litewsky, Hörde and the eighteen-year-old young star Willi Waltner from Cologne. However, Willi Waltner was sent to the games.

Willi Liebern represented the German colors eleven times in international matches.

Success at German championships

His first "top placement", a third place, he achieved in 1937 at the German heavyweight championships in the Greco-Roman style behind the two famous world-class wrestlers Georg Gehring , Ludwigshafen and Kurt Hornfischer , Nuremberg. In the following years until 1954 he won a total of nine German championship titles in light heavyweight or heavyweight, both in Greco-Roman and in free style. In addition, he was German runner-up five times. His toughest competitors at these championships were Gehring and Hornfischer, above all Fritz Müller , Karl Ehret , Ludwigshafen, Franz Peter , Munich, Max Leichter , Frankfurt and Heinz Litewsky , Dortmund-Hörde.

For his sporting successes he was on 12./13. Awarded the Silver Bay Leaf in October 1951.

swell

  • Professional magazines Athletics from 1932–1936 and 1949–1956 as well as Kraftsport from 1937–1939.
  • 1972 yearbook of the German Wrestling Federation , Athletik-Verlag, Karlsruhe 1972.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sports report of the Federal Government of November 29, 1973 to the Bundestag - Printed matter 7/1040 - page 54
personal data
SURNAME Dear, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1910
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1988